Newburgh Gets a Bookstore
Couple opens first in city in 25 years Angie Venezia wants to get it right. Along with excitement, she feels the responsibility that comes with ope...
Couple opens first in city in 25 years Angie Venezia wants to get it right. Along with excitement, she feels the responsibility that comes with opening the first independent bookstore in the City of Newburgh in at least 25 years. There hasn't been a bookstore there since Clough's on Liberty Street closed in the mid-1990s. There is a Barnes and Noble in the Town of Newburgh, but The Barking Goose closed in 2021. 'It's nerve-wracking,' Venezia admits. 'Because bookstores mean so much to many people, it feels like there is so much at stake, especially in a city that doesn't have one.